Wykked Wytch
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Wykked Wytch is a black metal
band signed to Perish Music Group from Miami, Florida
, USA.
band hailing from South Florida. The band plays a mixture of black
, death
, thrash
and gothic metal
.
The band's first album (on their own label Cauldron Records) was released in September 1996. The album, Something Wykked This Way Comes, received critical acclaim throughout the US and the rest of the world. After its initial pressing, Demolition Records, a UK-based metal label picked up the album for European distribution and re-issued the album with an extra two tracks.
In the fall of 1999, Ipek revamped Wykked Wytch with a new line-up and started to write material for the band’s second album, Angelic Vengeance. The album was recorded at Damage Studios in Ventimiglia
, Italy
with John Rae (of the UK band Pain Control) sessioning on drums. The album was produced by Kit Woolven (Cradle of Filth
, Anathema
) and mastered by Jim Morris (Cannibal Corpse
, Death) at Morrisound Studios in Tampa
, Florida
.
Angelic Vengeance was released in the fall of 2001 and Wykked Wytch took their show on the road to support the album in Europe. The band landed the coveted support spot on the "Hell Comes To Your Town 2" European Tour with thrash legends Kreator
, Sodom
and Destruction
.
After returning home from a successful European tour in 2002, Ipek and guitarist Gio Geraca began collaborating on material for the third album Nefret. In late 2002, Wykked Wytch cut demos at Audiohammer Studios in Orlando
, Florida with engineer Jason Suceof (Trivium
, Devildriver
) and session drums performed by Richard Christy
(Death, Iced Earth
, The Howard Stern Show).
By early 2003, the writing for the third album was completed and the band went into the studio to begin recording. The album was recorded at Studio 13 in Deerfield Beach, Florida and was produced by Jeremy Staska (Marilyn Manson
, Poison the Well
) and the band. The album cover art for Nefret was once again handled by Chad Michael Ward (Soilwork
, Darkane
), who also designed the cover for Wykked Wytch’s previous album. Soon after the completion of the album Wykked Wytch shot a video for the track "The Soul Awaits".
After several delays the album was finally released in the Fall of 2004 through Demolition Records/Dreamcatcher Records. Wykked Wytch spent the first half of 2005 on the road in Europe as part of an extensive touring campaign. The three month trek had Wykked Wytch first teaming up with Carpathian Forest
, Tsjuder
and E-Force for six weeks. The band then continued their touring of Europe by joining the No Mercy Fests with Six Feet Under
, Nile
, Dark Funeral
, Disbelief, Dying Fetus
and Cataract
.
On returning home from Europe, Wykked Wytch started to write material for their fourth album. In August 2005, the band entered Red Room Recorders in Tampa
with engineer Mark Prator (Deicide
, Obituary
) to record demos. The band finished 2005 by supporting Deicide on a month long tour of Europe and were joined by drummer John Rae who had performed drums on Wykked Wytch's second album Angelic Vengeance.
At the beginning of 2006, Wykked Wytch signed with UK based label SixSixSix Records, owned by Cradle of Filth
bassist Dave Pybus
. This would be a short lived union and the band soon part ways with the label. They would go on to self-finance their fourth album Memories of a Dying Whore and begin recording at Redroom Recorders in Tampa
with Mark Prator engineering. Before the completion of the album Wykked Wytch would join Hanzel and Gretyl and Bella Morte for a short US tour "Oktotenfest" in the Fall of 2006.
In 2007 Wykked Wytch completed the album. The album was mixed by Eric Rachel at Trax East Studios in New Jersey
and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Studios in New York
. After several delays Memories of a Dying Whore was released in December through Perish Music Group.
In 2008 the band released two cover song
s and videos; the songs were "Sweet Dreams
" from Eurythmics
and "Bring Me to Life
" from Evanescence
.
Former Members
Albums
Videos
Promo Videos
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
band signed to Perish Music Group from Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
, USA.
Biography
Wykked Wytch was formed in Philadelphia, USA in 1994. Led by the vocalist frontwoman Ipek, Wykked Wytch is a female-fronted black metalBlack metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
band hailing from South Florida. The band plays a mixture of black
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
, death
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
, thrash
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...
and gothic metal
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...
.
The band's first album (on their own label Cauldron Records) was released in September 1996. The album, Something Wykked This Way Comes, received critical acclaim throughout the US and the rest of the world. After its initial pressing, Demolition Records, a UK-based metal label picked up the album for European distribution and re-issued the album with an extra two tracks.
In the fall of 1999, Ipek revamped Wykked Wytch with a new line-up and started to write material for the band’s second album, Angelic Vengeance. The album was recorded at Damage Studios in Ventimiglia
Ventimiglia
Ventimiglia is a city and comune in Liguria, northern Italy, in the province of Imperia. It is located southwest of Genoa by rail, and 7 km from the French-Italian border, on the Gulf of Genoa, having a small harbour at the mouth of the Roia River, which divides the town into two parts...
, Italy
Italy
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with John Rae (of the UK band Pain Control) sessioning on drums. The album was produced by Kit Woolven (Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
, Anathema
Anathema (band)
Anathema are an English band from Liverpool primarily known for their ever evolving sound. Beginning as pioneers of the death/doom metal sub-genre, their later albums have been associated with genres such as alternative rock, progressive rock, art rock, new prog, and post-rock.-History:Anathema...
) and mastered by Jim Morris (Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Formed in 1988, the band has released eleven studio albums, one box set, and one live album...
, Death) at Morrisound Studios in Tampa
Tâmpa
Tâmpa may refer to several villages in Romania:* Tâmpa, a village in Băcia Commune, Hunedoara County* Tâmpa, a village in Miercurea Nirajului, Mureş County* Tâmpa, a mountain in Braşov city...
, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
.
Angelic Vengeance was released in the fall of 2001 and Wykked Wytch took their show on the road to support the album in Europe. The band landed the coveted support spot on the "Hell Comes To Your Town 2" European Tour with thrash legends Kreator
Kreator
Kreator is a thrash metal band from Essen, Germany, formed in 1978, but formalized in 1982 under the name Tormentor. They originally performed a speed metal style with Venom influences. Their style of music is similar to their compatriots Destruction and Sodom, the other two big German thrash metal...
, Sodom
Sodom (band)
Sodom is a German Thrash metal trio from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1981.Along with the bands Kreator and Destruction, Sodom is considered one of the "big three" of Teutonic thrash metal...
and Destruction
Destruction (band)
Destruction is a German thrash metal band. They are considered one of the "three kings" of the Teutonic thrash metal scene, the others being Kreator and Sodom...
.
After returning home from a successful European tour in 2002, Ipek and guitarist Gio Geraca began collaborating on material for the third album Nefret. In late 2002, Wykked Wytch cut demos at Audiohammer Studios in Orlando
Orlando, Florida
Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...
, Florida with engineer Jason Suceof (Trivium
Trivium (band)
Trivium is an American heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 1999. Signed to Roadrunner Records, the band has released five studio albums, eleven singles, and twelve music videos...
, Devildriver
DevilDriver
DevilDriver is an American heavy metal band from Santa Barbara, California, formed in 2002. The band was originally named Deathride, however, due to copyright issues and the name being taken by several bands, Deathride changed its name to DevilDriver, which refers to bells Italian witches used to...
) and session drums performed by Richard Christy
Richard Christy
Thomas Richard Christy is an American musician and radio personality who currently works on The Howard Stern Show. Christy began to work on the show after winning the "Get John's Job" contest on July 1, 2004. He is known for his prank calls, song parodies, personality, and stunts performed on the...
(Death, Iced Earth
Iced Earth
Iced Earth is an American heavy metal band from Tampa, Florida. Originally formed under the name "Purgatory" in 1984, Iced Earth has released a total of ten studio albums, one live album, three EP's, two compilations and boxsets...
, The Howard Stern Show).
By early 2003, the writing for the third album was completed and the band went into the studio to begin recording. The album was recorded at Studio 13 in Deerfield Beach, Florida and was produced by Jeremy Staska (Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson (band)
Marilyn Manson is an American metal band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Formed in 1989 by Brian Warner and Scott Putesky, the group was originally named Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids with their uniquely theatrical performances gathering a local cult following in the early '90s. This attention...
, Poison the Well
Poison the Well (band)
Poison the Well was an experimental hardcore band from Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Florida who were last signed to Ferret Music. Guitarist Ryan Primack and drummer Chris Hornbrook were the only remaining members of the band who were involved since their inception, although vocalist Jeffrey Moreira was...
) and the band. The album cover art for Nefret was once again handled by Chad Michael Ward (Soilwork
Soilwork
Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995 by Björn Strid and Peter Wichers, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork .Their sound is a fusion of the classic...
, Darkane
Darkane
Darkane is a melodic death / progressive thrash metal band that originated in Helsingborg, Sweden in 1998. Their music contains ample thrash elements interspersed with acoustic interludes and symphonic features, such as the in studio use of synthesizers and occasionally full orchestras and choir...
), who also designed the cover for Wykked Wytch’s previous album. Soon after the completion of the album Wykked Wytch shot a video for the track "The Soul Awaits".
After several delays the album was finally released in the Fall of 2004 through Demolition Records/Dreamcatcher Records. Wykked Wytch spent the first half of 2005 on the road in Europe as part of an extensive touring campaign. The three month trek had Wykked Wytch first teaming up with Carpathian Forest
Carpathian Forest
Carpathian Forest is a Norwegian black metal band formed by Nattefrost and Nordavind in 1990.-Biography:Carpathian Forest emerged with the demo tape "Bloodlust and Perversion" in 1992. In 1993 the band released a second demo: Journey Through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern...
, Tsjuder
Tsjuder
Tsjuder is a Norwegian black metal band founded in 1993.- Name :The name Tsjuder was picked from the Norwegian movie Pathfinder...
and E-Force for six weeks. The band then continued their touring of Europe by joining the No Mercy Fests with Six Feet Under
Six Feet Under (band)
Six Feet Under is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida, formed in 1993. The band was originally a side project by Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes with guitarist Allen West of Obituary...
, Nile
Nile (band)
Nile is an American death metal band from Greenville, South Carolina, formed in 1993. Their music and lyrics are inspired by Ancient Egyptian/Near Eastern mysticism, history, religion, and art, as well as stories by H. P. Lovecraft.- History :...
, Dark Funeral
Dark Funeral
Dark Funeral is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993. They are one of the bands to have emerged in Sweden during the Second wave of black metal....
, Disbelief, Dying Fetus
Dying Fetus
Dying Fetus is an American death metal band from Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Formed in 1991, the group is known for their outspoken political views, and for being one of the few death metal bands who follow a political nature. Earlier lyrics showcased the common death metal trait of explicit violence...
and Cataract
Cataract (band)
Cataract is a Swiss metalcore band, signed to Metal Blade Records.-Biography:Cataract was formed in 1998 by guitarist Simon Füllemann, guitarist Greg Mäder and drummer Ricky Dürst. Their first self-titled demo was recorded in six hours and mixed in another four hours in the bed room of vocalist...
.
On returning home from Europe, Wykked Wytch started to write material for their fourth album. In August 2005, the band entered Red Room Recorders in Tampa
Tâmpa
Tâmpa may refer to several villages in Romania:* Tâmpa, a village in Băcia Commune, Hunedoara County* Tâmpa, a village in Miercurea Nirajului, Mureş County* Tâmpa, a mountain in Braşov city...
with engineer Mark Prator (Deicide
Deicide (band)
Deicide is an American death metal band formed in 1987. Their first two albums, Deicide and Legion, are ranked second and third place in best-selling death metal albums of the SoundScan era.-As Amon/Carnage :...
, Obituary
Obituary (band)
Obituary is an American death metal band formed in 1984 in Tampa, Florida under the name Executioner, then changed the name's spelling to Xecutioner, and later changed their name to Obituary in 1988. The band comprises vocalist John Tardy, drummer Donald Tardy, guitarists Trevor Peres and Ralph...
) to record demos. The band finished 2005 by supporting Deicide on a month long tour of Europe and were joined by drummer John Rae who had performed drums on Wykked Wytch's second album Angelic Vengeance.
At the beginning of 2006, Wykked Wytch signed with UK based label SixSixSix Records, owned by Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
bassist Dave Pybus
Dave Pybus
Dave Pybus .Pybus's first band was called Anul Death which later changed its name to Darkened.From 1990-1994 Dave worked at Peaceville Records as a graphic designer...
. This would be a short lived union and the band soon part ways with the label. They would go on to self-finance their fourth album Memories of a Dying Whore and begin recording at Redroom Recorders in Tampa
Tâmpa
Tâmpa may refer to several villages in Romania:* Tâmpa, a village in Băcia Commune, Hunedoara County* Tâmpa, a village in Miercurea Nirajului, Mureş County* Tâmpa, a mountain in Braşov city...
with Mark Prator engineering. Before the completion of the album Wykked Wytch would join Hanzel and Gretyl and Bella Morte for a short US tour "Oktotenfest" in the Fall of 2006.
In 2007 Wykked Wytch completed the album. The album was mixed by Eric Rachel at Trax East Studios in New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Studios in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. After several delays Memories of a Dying Whore was released in December through Perish Music Group.
In 2008 the band released two cover song
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
s and videos; the songs were "Sweet Dreams
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (song)
Marilyn Manson released a cover version of "Sweet Dreams " as the first single from the EP, Smells Like Children. This version became an MTV staple and helped to establish the band in the mainstream. It also appears on the band's greatest hits album, Lest We Forget: The Best Of...
" from Eurythmics
Eurythmics
Eurythmics were a British pop rock duo, formed in 1980, currently disbanded, but known to reunite from time to time. Consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A...
and "Bring Me to Life
Bring Me to Life
"Bring Me to Life" is a song by American rock band Evanescence. It was written by Amy Lee, Ben Moody and David Hodges and produced by Dave Fortman. It also features guest vocals from Paul McCoy of the band 12 Stones. Wind-up released "Bring Me to Life" in 2003 as the lead single from Evanescence's...
" from Evanescence
Evanescence
Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording private albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than 17 million copies worldwide...
.
Members
Current line-up- Ipek - Vocals
- Kenny - Bass
- Salvatore LoPresti - Keyboards
Former Members
- Mark Warlokk - Guitars
- Gio Geraca - Guitars
- Sean Young - Guitars
- Sean Tibbetts - Bass
- David - Bass and Guitars
- Barry Meyers - Bass
- Pat Aylward - Bass
- Ben Kuzay - Bass
- Steve Brubaker - Drums
- Harry Ketterer - Drums
- John Rae - Drums
- Koos - Drums
- Chris Morini - Drums
- Richard ChristyRichard ChristyThomas Richard Christy is an American musician and radio personality who currently works on The Howard Stern Show. Christy began to work on the show after winning the "Get John's Job" contest on July 1, 2004. He is known for his prank calls, song parodies, personality, and stunts performed on the...
- Drums - Lenny Warmbrandt - Bass
Discography
Demos- Awakened (2008)
Albums
- Something Wykked This Way Comes (1996) (Re-release in (2000) with extra two tracks)
- Angelic Vengeance (2001)
- Nefret (2004)
- Memories of a Dying Whore (2008)
Videos
- The Soul Awaits (2004)
- Sweet Dreams (2008) (EurythmicsEurythmicsEurythmics were a British pop rock duo, formed in 1980, currently disbanded, but known to reunite from time to time. Consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A...
Cover) - Awakened (2008)
- Bring Me to Life (2008) (EvanescenceEvanescenceEvanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording private albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than 17 million copies worldwide...
Cover)
Promo Videos